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Look what we got in the post today! It’s the Slovenian edition of The Hole Story by Kelly Canby. Reading the back cover blurb I can see it’s peppered with carons, also known as inverted circumflexes or inverted hats, which are used to change the way the letter is pronounced.
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Warning: this tale involves grave-digging, tea-dipped treasure maps, and naughty school boys. Read at your peril.
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Each year, the History Teachers' Association of Victoria (HTAV) organises a Historical Fiction Competition that asks Year 5–10 students to create stories based on historical events and people. Students can write about any period of history as long as the entry has a convincing setting that is historically correct in time and place.
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This will be a bit of a breathless post! I’m taking a big gulp of air between the Fremantle Press Annual General Meeting (AGM), Easter and my flight to the Sydney Writers’ Festival for some intense pitching sessions with visiting international publishers later this week.
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Fremantle Press author and new mum Fiona Burrows explains how she came up with the idea of her new picture book Violet and Nothing, and why it’s never too early to encourage children to be creative.
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Fremantle Press is delighted to have Lata Periakarpan interning with us for the next few months. A video whiz, writer extraordinaire and all-round creative soul, here she tells us a bit about herself.
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Fremantle Press publisher Cate Sutherland will host a panel featuring Yuot Alaak, Rafeif Ismail and Scott-Patrick Mitchell as they discuss diversity in all its forms, from race and gender to sexuality and class.
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Despite careful planning, years in advance, I’m still occasionally surprised by the way certain topics or themes emerge across a year-long publishing program. After reading Marcella Polain’s Driving into the Sun – and knowing that James Foley was working on a graphic novel called Chickensaurus – I thought that perhaps 2019 might end up being the year of the chook. Instead, we seem to have deserted the henhouse and taken up residence in the architect’s office.
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Anne-Louise Willoughby is the author of Nora Heysen: A Portrait. She gave a presentation on Nora Heysen in Melbourne on Sunday 10 March as part of NGV Australia’s launch of its new major exhibition Hans and Nora Heysen Two Generations of Australian Art.
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During her Perth Festival Writers Week session with ABC RN’s Claire Nichols, Afternoons with Harvey Beam author Carrie Cox described what it was like to grow up on the wrong side of the river – by which she meant the side without a library.
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